God’s Plan for the Family
I thought for years that the “Lord’s work,” that is, ministerial endeavours, must have top priority in a any church leader’s life. So, we complied and gave the children to nannies’ care when the youngest was only two, as my husband and I were supposed to work from dawn to dusk in church. But things didn’t work out very well and I finally found myself alone to take care of my children. I began to have second thoughts about certain Bible verses related to the ministry and the family. I belatedly realized from Scripture that my first priority is to bring up my own family in the fear and admonition of the Lord. If I put my family before my call, then and only then will I know how to do the Lord’s work rightly.
Business and professional men and women often make the same mistake I did. Putting their careers first, their little family suffers. Women sometimes let a career displace the needs of their family. Some women are successful in having a career while raising a family, but not many. For most, that is not God’s will. God’s will is to put the family at the centre of our lives and learn to trust God for our needs and live on what He supplies.
The unity of the family in our society is being lost – no doubt about that. Evil forces all over the world are deliberately trying to destroy families. “Family” is being redefined as being two people who live together, regardless of their sex and of their marital status. The concept of free love with no commitment to a lifetime relationship between individuals, againd, regardless of their sex, is being promoted. And we must send our children to schools where they are taught all about this until it comes out their ears, and at very tender ages.
What is happening? Since the sex act is the very heart of marriage, designed for a man and a woman, it is meant by the Creator for a man with his woman. When sex is overemphasized and is participated in loosely and our young people are encouraged to try each other out, these libertine humanists succeed in destroying the family — the heart of our church, and the basis of our society. If we continue on this road, the world will 
collapse.
A basic principle to consider, as Christians, is that our family is the very heart of God’s plan. This principle has been largely lost in the world as well as in most churches today. We want, as a theocratic people who seek being governed by our God, to organize our programs with the unity of the family in mind. We do not want to loose the sight of the family or be unaware that the family is at the heart of God’s plan. This is not to say that single people are of less importance to the church — they are also part of families — only, that families need help to become stronger from all the activities of church. We want to give our best to help families, bringing whole families back to the covenant of the Church. We do want our families to buy a camper and go off for holidays and weekends sometimes. However, we also envision to plan spiritual, social, sportive, cultural and artistic activities in order to try hard to pull families together and make them feel welcome and commited, as the core part of Church.
Elton Trueblood once wrote,
Every family is potentially a holy family. A mother, a father, and children conduct together an amazing experiment often in marked contrast to the ways of the world. A family is a unit of such manageable size that we can do in it what we cannot do elsewhere. In the individual home it is possible to establish our own standards, determine the nature of the major influences, and make a separate area of cooperation in the midst of the world’s competitive struggle. Each home, imperfect though it may be, is our closest approximation to the Kingdom of God.